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Information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands

Robert Whallon; William A Lovis; Robert K Hitchcock

Los Angeles UCLA/Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press 2011

Available at MAE - Museu Arqueologia e Etnologia    (GN388 I43 ex.2 )(GetIt)

  • Title:
    Information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands
  • Author: Robert Whallon; William A Lovis; Robert K Hitchcock
  • Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies -- Information resources; Social networks; Memory -- Social aspects; MEMÓRIA SOCIAL (ASPECTOS ANTROPOLÓGICOS ASPECTOS COGNITIVOS); MEMÓRIA (ASPECTOS ANTROPOLÓGICOS ASPECTOS SOCIAIS ASPECTOS COGNITIVOS); CAÇADORES E COLETORES (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS ASPECTOS ANTROPOLÓGICOS ASPECTOS CULTURAIS)
  • Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: An introduction to information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands / Robert Whallon -- Yupik Eskimo gendered information storage patterns / Caroline Funk -- Space, information and knowledge : ethnocartography and North American boreal forest hunter-gatherers / William A. Lovis and Randolph E. Donahue -- Modeling hunter-gatherer information networks : an archaeological case study from the Kuril Islands / Ben Fitzhugh, S. Colby Phillips, and Erik Gjesfjeld -- Environmental knowledge among Central African hunter-gatherers : types of knowledge and intra-cultural variations / Mitsuo Ichikawa, Shiho Hattori, and Hirokazu Yasuoka -- Where is that job? : hunter-gatherer information systems in complex social environments in the eastern Kalahari Desert, Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock and James I. Ebert -- Borrowed names and indexical function in the northern Uto-Aztecan botanical lexicon / Jane H. Hill -- Rite, ritual and materiality of information in Mesolithic Europe / Marek Zvelebil -- The role of information exchange in the colonization of Sahul / Peter Veth [and others] -- Information exchange amongst hunter-gatherers of the Western Desert of Australia / Jo McDonald and Peter Veth -- Rock art information among hunter-gatherers in northwest Patagonia : an assessment of environmental and territorial models / Vivian Scheinsohn -- Visits, "Fuegians" and information networks / Luis Alberto Borrero, Fabiana María Martin, and Ramiro Barberena -- Foraging for information among foragers -- an afterword / H. Martin Wobst -- A synopsis of information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands / Robert Whallon and William A. Lovis
  • Publisher: Los Angeles UCLA/Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
  • Creation Date: 2011
  • Format: xvi, 368 p illustrations (some color), maps 24 cm.
  • Language: English
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